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This article provides the support policies for Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 from the download center. iSCSI Software Target has also released with the Windows Storage Server, which is an OEM edition. For customers who have issues running on the Windows Storage Server, please contact your OEM provider for support.

VDS/VSS hardware providers OS support

Hyper-V host backup (using auto recovery) is not supported in this release. For application-consistent backup, you can invoke the backup within the VM guest machine.

HPC providers OS support

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and service pack is supported.

Initiator support

Microsoft has tested the Windows inbox initiator running on Windows 2008 R2, as well as a number of third party initiators. The iSCSI Software Target supports third party initiators that are compliant to RFC 3720. For details about the tested initiators, refer to the TechNet article Interoperability with Non-Microsoft iSCSI Initiators.

Implementation release notes

Performance and scalability considerations

iSCSI Software Target has been tested to provide storage to Hyper-V VMs. With the 3.3 release, the tested iSCSI Software Target running in a clustering configuration could support up to 90 VMs running on eight Hyper-V hosts. All VMs survived after an unplanned iSCSI target failover.

For generic scalability support limitations, please refer to the TechNet article Scalability Limits.